- Lead
- 870
- Total
- 22,796
- vs nation
- D+5.3
Indiana 34th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,629
- Total
- 24,531
- vs nation
- D+2.2
- Lead
- 1,224
- Total
- 23,544
- vs nation
- D+3.1
- Lead
- 5,336
- Total
- 24,267
- vs nation
- D+18.1
- Lead
- 9,104
- Total
- 27,336
- vs nation
- D+26.0
- Lead
- 1,528
- Total
- 24,836
- vs nation
- D+8.6
- Lead
- 3,957
- Total
- 23,331
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 5,274
- Total
- 24,393
- vs nation
- D+13.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+3.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,7202024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,664 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 40.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $45,7092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.7 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.4 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 43, IN · twin score 89.2
presidential history
Party record book
Indiana 34th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
67.6%
18,033 votes · D+35.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 66.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
59.9%
8,141 votes · R+20.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James A. Garfield, 1880 · 55.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
18,033votes
67.6% of the vote · D+35.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 18,011 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
13,736votes
54.4% of the vote · R+9.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 12,773 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Adlai Stevenson1956
+27.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+12.0 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +26.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+4.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1932 · +4.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 42.4%10,610 | 57.6%14,443 | 25,053 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+3.8 in a state that leaned heavily Republican statewide, District 34 stands out as a competitive outlier worth tracking in down-ballot races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 35.7 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 20.4 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.8 points.
A population of 67,720, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $45,709 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 43 and State House District 44.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Indiana 34th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/18034/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.